supernatural fiction

I was going to wait until tomorrow but I don’t think I can wait that long 😀 I have a contract announcement!

I’m pleased to announce that my upper YA urban fantasy, Salt and Iron, has been accepted by Evernight Teen 🙂 The protagonist is nineteen year old Billie Shane, who is a monster hunter in training who has just been given her first solo case.

More information to come! I can’t wait to share this story with you (and, yes, I am already writing book two 🙂 ).

As the autopsy began, she opened her gift so she could see the Pisces and Scorpio signs on the victim. Nothing was out of the ordinary until the heart was removed. “Stop.”

Her breath caught as the image of a scorpion wrapped around the heart and then sank inside.

“What is it?” Sora asked.

“Pick up the heart, Asher, so that I can see it more clearly.”

He picked the heart up carefully and held it over the body.

The shape of a scorpion began to form again on the heart, almost as if someone was burning it on.

Sora cursed in Japanese, and though she didn’t understand a word of it, she caught the meaning well enough: ‘fucking hell and damnation’.

“The first heart did not do that,” Asher said.

As the Scorpio constellation began to sparkle like a ruby in sunlight, Autumn’s eyes narrowed. “That’s because the first victim wasn’t Zodiac gifted—this one is. She marked his soul. That’s why her trail disappeared so fast.” She met Sora’s dark gaze. “She’s using the Piscean energy to hide herself, using his soul to wipe the trail clean.”

So…that short story I was talking about? This is it! Dark Scorpio will be released next month and is the introduction to a new series 🙂

BLURB:

If they fail to save the city, the world will fall to darkness.

As an agent for the Supernatural Enforcement Agency’s Zodiac Unit, Autumn Kaine is used to the darker side of human nature. She investigates crimes that involve those gifted with the power of the Zodiac. But when she’s called into a case with the local police, even she is taken aback by the brutality of the attack.

That case turns out to be just the tip of the iceberg.

Gifted Zodiacs that thrive on the darker side of their power are starting to kill the signs they are most compatible with, and with each kill the darkness sinks deeper into the Heart of the city. The dark Scorpio Autumn is tracking is the key to stopping the bloodbath- and she is running out of time.

Once the Heart of Pandora turns completely dark, the entire world will turn with it.